(Save the Children) – In Yemen, there more than 1 million acutely malnourished children under 5 living in areas where cholera infection levels are high. This is incredibly dangerous. Children who are malnourished are three times as likely to die if they get cholera, because of their weakened immune systems. Link
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(CNN) – More than a million children already suffering from acute malnutrition are at risk from a cholera outbreak sweeping war-torn Yemen, charity Save the Children warned Wednesday. The charity said it was sending more health experts to the worst-affected areas as it tries to ease the crisis. A ravaged health care system, devastated infrastructure […]
(ICRC) – Statement by Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross – I am leaving Yemen profoundly concerned for the plight of its people. The cholera outbreak remains alarming. With the rainy season approaching, we expect more than 600,000 cases by the end of the year. This is unprecedented. Link
(AP) – Warring sides in Yemen’s civil war promised visiting U.N. agency chiefs to clear obstacles to aid delivery in a nation where cholera is spreading rapidly and hundreds of thousands of children are severely malnourished, the head of the U.N. child welfare agency said Thursday. The growing suffering of Yemen’s civilians, including millions of children, is […]
(The Guardian) – Children are bearing the brunt of the conflict in Yemen, with 80% in desperate need of aid and 2 million suffering from acute malnutrition, the UN has warned. The impact of war and hunger on the country’s 12.5 million young people has been compounded by what the directors of the World Health Organization, the UN […]
(BBC) – Amid UN warnings of the dire humanitarian situation in Yemen, the BBC’s Orla Guerin has overcome attempts by Saudi Arabia to block her team from entering the country and has seen for herself the depth of the suffering. Yemen’s health, water and sanitation systems are collapsing after two years of war between government forces […]
(UNICEF) – “As the heads of three United Nations agencies – UNICEF, the World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) – we have travelled together to Yemen to see for ourselves the scale of this humanitarian crisis and to step up our combined efforts to help the people of Yemen. This is the […]
(The Independent) – As many as 600,000 people in Yemen are expected to contract cholera before the end of 2017 as the conflict-riven country struggles to contain the disease, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said. Arriving in the government-controlled city of Aden on Sunday Peter Mauer warned that the “great tragedy is that […]
(OHCHR) – Our office in Yemen has gathered more information about a deadly airstrike that took place in a small village in Taizz Governorate in Yemen on Tuesday, 18 July. The Arab Coalition Forces airstrike took place in Al Asheerah village, which is near the town of Mawza, and is currently controlled by the Houthis, at […]
(Foreign Policy) – More than 90 civilians, including 25 children, died in a March 2016 Saudi airstrike on a market in Yemen. Months later, ten more children perished in another strike on a school in Saada. The next day, five children were killed when a bomb smashed into a hospital in Hajjah. Link
